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The fediverse in a nutshell (futurology.today)

submitted 9 months ago by ggsu7@futurology.today to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

>be me

>try to explain meme arrows aka greentext in Lemmy

>tfw you've made yourself look like an idiot

Jokes and stories are often written that way there. Greentext. Actual quote and that greentext form of writing just use the same > arrow thingy. You see it here too sometimes.

I think there's something fun about writing it like that. Reminds me of IRC.

[+] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

It's not a comment ID number, it's saying there's basically "a gazillion instances". It's making a joke about Lemmy but just in greentext.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Oh. I can’t read.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I went and found the thread for us, it's just greentext, no quoting, it's the second message and just clowning on Lemmy

4chan chat in question

https://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/98011228

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

That’s some dedication! Okay. I’ll accept I am incompetent.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

I was starting to doubt myself so I had to check, haha.

[-] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

I originally read it as just saying 'different instances' and not stating a number of different instances. But that's not the format 4chan uses for a quote reply (I don't remember, isn't there a number sign or something?) and that number would be way too large for a comment ID. So, yeah. I didn't consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah the format is a bit different, with >> denoting the comment number

picture of 4channel.org comment)

Though it could've easily been a messed up formatting. I've done it plenty of times. Though their formatting is easier than here, where you need that extra empty line for comments to show up on different lines.

I didn’t consider that someone could actually go there and find the post since I think of 4chan as /b where it all disappears after 2 hours.

I was searching archives and found nothing, assuming it was old enough (and I was lucky enough) that it was archived. Then just searched for the comment number + 4chan and found it. Turns it it is just 20 hours old or so. Only now I realize that the date is right there lol. And it being /g/, it's much much slower